Cigarette extinguisher



Feb. 23, 1932. R. A. SCHLEGEL 1,846,572

CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHE R I Filed ob 1, 1950.

Inveni'or: Haber AwSfc'hle yjel,

Patented Feb. 23, 1932 UNITE I OFFICE ROBERT A. SCHLEGEL, FWILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Application filedOctober 1, 1930. Serial No. 485,739.

Cigarette extinguishers have been pro posed that snuff the fire from thelighted end of a burning cigarette by crushing and then disintegratingthe crushed end and deposlt L? the shreds into an ash tray, and thepresent invention aims to provide an improved device of that nature andof a nature to be sold separately and applied to metal, glass, china orother trays by the purchaser.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which forms a part of thisspecification, and wherein like reference characters are used toindicate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Fig.1 is a view in front elevation of the invention with the tray towhich it is to be applied shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough with a fragment only ofthe tray shown in full lines.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through Fig. 2 taken on the line33.

Fig. 4 is a Vertical sectional view of the upper portion only of amodified form of plunger, and

Fig. 5 is a top plan thereof.

In the drawings, reference character 2 indicates a tray, shown in dottedlines, and which may be of any desired material, such as metal, fibre,glass, porcelain, or other suitable material for use in the constructionof ash trays. A central opening 3 is formed in the tray of a size tosnugly receive the stem 4 of a nut 5. This nut is hexagonal or squaredto receive a wrench or other tool and its stem 4 is provided with athreaded bore 6, open only at its upper end to receive the threadedlower end of the reduced stem 7 of a cylindrical post 8. An anvil 10preferably in the form of a cup-shaped metal stamping and provided witha central aperture 12 is placed over the stem 7 with the latter passedthrough said aperture 12, and the wall 14;, which is exteriorly serratedor roughened, is engaged with the shoulder 15 of the post 8.

The upper end of the post 8 is provided with a circular head 16 and thebody of the post passes through an aperture 17 centrally provided in thebottom of a cup-shaped nut 18. The lower face of the nut is alsoserrated or roughened for cooperation with the serrated or roughenedupper surface of the anvil part 1 1. A. tube 20 exteriorly threaded atboth ends is screwed into the cup-shaped nut 18 and into a similar nut21, the latter being imperforate, to afiord a seat for one end of a coilspring 22 which bears at its other end against the said post head 16.This spring is inclosed within the tube 20.

A purchaser, who may be a dealer in quantities of such articles, mayapply the invention to his own selection of ash trays by providing thesame with apertures 3, irrserting the nut stem 4 into the same, applyingthe anvil 10 to the inside of the tray and inserting the stem 7 of thepost through the opening 12 of the anvil and 3 of the tray, and thenturning up the nut to firmly grip the tray 2 between the same and theanvil, thereby producing a very rigid and salable article.

The plunger may be modified as in Figs. 4 and 5 by providing acylindrical casting 30 with a bore 31, providing an aperture 32 toslidingly receive the stem 8, but not to pass its head 16, and inclosingthe spring 22 by inserting a disk 25, which latter provides a seat forone end of the spring while its other end bears against the post head16'.

In operation, the lighted end of a cigarette is placed between theserrated or roughened faces of the anvil and the plunger, and theserrated upper edge of the latter grasped and the plunger forceddownwardly to crush and thereby snuff the fire from the lightedcigarette end. To insure complete extinguish ment, the plunger 20 (or30) is rotated so that the crushed end is disintegrated, while stillunder snufling pressure, and the shreds are deposited by centrifugalaction over the edge of the anvil into the tray.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described,cooperating extinguisher members, a headed post, one member slidable onthe post and having a bore receiving the headed end of the post, ashoulder on the post, said post being passed through the other memberand the shoulder engaged therewith, said post having a fastener engagingpart, and a fastener having a post engaging part, one of said partsbeing adapted to be passed through 5 an ash receiver.

2. In a device of the character described, members having portionsengageable with each other, one of said portions being adapted to bepassed through an ash receiver, an extinguisher anvil, one of saidmembers having a head and passing through said anvil and having ashoulder engaging said anvil, an extinguisher plunger slidable on thehead ed member and provided with a bore to receive the head thereof, a.spring within the bore and bearing at one end against the plunger and atthe other end against the said head.

3. In a device of the character described, members having portionsengageable with each other, one of said portions being adapted to bepassed through an ash receiver, a head and shoulder on one of saidmembers, an anvil, said last mentioned member passing through the anviland its shoulder engaged therewith, a plunger slidable on said lastmentioned member and having a bore receiving said head, an end membersecured to said plunger, and a spring within said bore engaged with saidend member.

4;. In a device of the character described, an ash tray, an anvilsecured to the tray and having a substantially straight surface, aplunger movable toward and away from said anvil and having asubstantially straight surface adapted to co-operate with said surfaceof the anvil for extinguishing a cigarette, means for rotatably mountingthe plunger, said plunger being rotatable about an axis arranged atright angles to its said straight surface, means whereby rotation ofsaid plunger will remove a crushed cigarette end from between the anviland the plunger, and a spring for normally holding the plunger in spacedrelation to the anvil.

5. The combination with a tray, of co-operating extinguisher members,means fastening one of said extinguisher members to the tray, a postcarried by one of said extinguisher members, the other extinguishermember having a bore to slidably receive the post, and a spring withinone of the extinguisher members exerting pressure upon the a post tonormally hold the extinguisher members in spaced relation.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ROBERT A. SCHLEGEL.

